Read The Death and Life of Great American Cities

James Baldwin's two essays of 1963 on race and religion in America.

Experience the dystopian classic by George Orwell

The pigs take over the farm; all animals are equal, but some more than others.

Solzhenitsyn's literary investigation of the camps from 227 witnesses; the abridged edition is enough.

A physicist between an anarchist moon and its capitalist planet; Le Guin's ambiguous utopia.

Socrates on justice, the philosopher-king and the cave; the book Western philosophy replies to.

Machiavelli's advice to a ruler: better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Edward Said on how the West invented the East to rule it.